Re: Contacting Vim Tips Wiki Admin JohnBeckett

On 10/11/12 07:00, stosss wrote:
> With so many Open Source apps that have very cryptic and mostly
> useless documentation if any this is probably the best one around in
> regards to documentation and tips or help that actually helps.
>
> It is also nice to know there are number of people that like to keep
> the docs and help and tips in good order and useful.
>
> Thank you to all of you that do that. That also goes for Bram for
> coding this app to begin with.
>
> This is be far my favorite editor. There is still a lot for me to
> learn to make my editing go a lot faster and easier. In spite of that
> it is my favorite. Actually it is the only text editor I use. I have
> been using this editor for about 6 years and I only started using it
> daily for the about the last 4 months. I am still reading through all
> the email from this list I have been getting for the last 2 years.
>
> Thank You, Cheers, Smiles give yourselves a hand!
>
Yeah, you can say that again.

When I saw Vim's help I became wedded to it. It brought me back to my
learning days as a mainframe programmer in the early seventies, where
there were paper books about everything, published by the computer
company, you just had to ask for them.

On a PC, I've never seen any other software item that comes even close
to Vim in terms of usefulness and completeness of the documentation; and
while I was here it has even got better: e.g. the helphelp.txt helpfile,
about finding your way through the help, is a relatively recent
development, I think it appeared with Vim 7, and a few versions before
that, 6.2 I think, the :helpgrep command was a great addition.


Best regards,
Tony.
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